Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At secondary level , where provision in the colonial period was extremely limited , the expansion has been even more spectacular , with the number of schools increasing from 177 to 1,502 and the number of pupils by 950 per cent . |
| 2 | The final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and its refined dexterity in handling small objects presented the evolving ego with its greatest opportunity and with its greatest challenge where direction of the manual musculature was concerned . |
| 3 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 4 | More complicated was the situation at Queen 's , where designs for the front quad were prepared by Hawksmoor , but the scheme executed by Townesend ( 1710–21 ) appears to have been almost entirely the joint work of himself and Clarke ; while for the new building at Magdalen , the original design by Edward Holdsworth [ q.v. ] was revised by Townesend in 1731 under Clarke 's direction . |
| 5 | But where privacy in the little closets of the eighteenth-century house is the individual 's privilege , for the Victorians the emphasis falls much more upon exclusion . |
| 6 | But particularly in a public sector context , where appeals to the public interest could be assumed to be more common , profound questions remain which can not be resolved by terse definitions . |
| 7 | Many of the decisions in this regard will be taken annually by the partners : where departures from the general rules are agreed , they should be promptly set down in writing and signed by all partners . |
| 8 | It was also a vital information centre , where spies mingled with oilmen , where officials of the local security forces met heir hookers , and where the waiters brought valuable intelligence every morning from their homes in the rabbit warrens in the ghettos and barrios where few diplomats or reporters dared go . |
| 9 | On another occasion she went to Lippits Hill in Loughton , Essex , where officers from the Metropolitan Police receive weapons training . |
| 10 | However , such risks could be taken only with very exact knowledge of the shore — where changes of the undersea bed are highly variable in comparison with the unchanging contours ashore . |
| 11 | Often the resource is money , which allows the school staff to develop the curriculum in ways which would be impossible where capitation from the local authority is the only source of income . |
| 12 | Where tenants in the worst flats have tried to paper the walls , the paper either falls off or clings to the surface with the mildew . |
| 13 | Where contact with the organized public is necessary or unavoidable , steps are taken to retain the organizational initiative in the hands of the governmental authorities as far as possible , and to associate with people of like attitude rather than with those who are considered to be ‘ uncooperative ’ , ‘ militant ’ , ‘ extremist ’ for example . |
| 14 | It is not a panacea either — it simply provides an economic and political framework , where co-operation between the various groups in society is less conflict-ridden , a fact which makes the possibility of government egalitarian measures more possible . |
| 15 | Where islands beyond the northern limit of pack ice ( for example South Georgia ) have a rich intertidal flora and fauna , and are ringed by beds of giant kelp Macrocystis gigantea with strands 20–30 m long , those within the pack ice zone have a relatively bare shoreline and restricted sublittoral flora . |
| 16 | By the end of January US forces still remained stationed near the Cuban and Peruvian embassies ( where members of the deposed regime and their families , including Noriega 's wife and daughters , were still taking refuge ) and were stopping and searching vehicles leaving diplomatic premises . |
| 17 | Housing , transport and locational problems were clearly of great magnitude , the greatest pressures of land shortage being felt on the periphery , where encroachments into the green belt were likely to be strongly resisted . |
| 18 | Now to either hand was heather , at this season still dark and flowerless , except where patches of the early bell heather splashed their vivid purple across grey rock . |
| 19 | The important point is this : is the use of an overseas company like Sterling ( where inquiries about the real ownership of shareholdings in threatened companies are met with a polite but firm snub ) acceptable within a legalframework trying to ensure fair play ? |
| 20 | It is thought that where acquisition of the outgoing partner 's share is subject to the option procedure , the consent of the court is required where the exercise of the option by the continuing partners has to be made ( if at all ) between presentation of the bankruptcy petition and vesting of the insolvent 's estate in the trustee since it involves a disposition of the partnership share of the insolvent partnersee s284 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 21 | Heart [ leb ] here signifies the seat of thought , not emotion , so is more akin to ‘ mind ’ ; hence , to labour the analogy somewhat , law is written into identity and consciousness rather than heart in the modern sense . |
| 22 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 23 | The report looked specifically at the cluster of cases around Dounreay and concluded that they were most likely to have been caused by oil workers rather than emissions from the nuclear plant . |
| 24 | However , given the previous discussion of the patriarchal roots of the ideology of suburbia , does it matter that poor women without husbands and with children will find themselves increasingly dependent on flats in decaying inner-city areas rather than houses in the leafy suburbs ? |
| 25 | He also led Chrysler 's 1991 and 1993 stock offerings , which raised more than $2,000m for the troubled company . |
| 26 | Many university professors were paid less than labourers in the eighteenth century ; if not clerics , they were forced , as were academics throughout the nineteenth century , to seek outside work to gain a living . |
| 27 | Although responsibility for the financial statements lies with the entity and its management , in order to mitigate engagement risk it will be necessary for MAS to be satisfied with the information presented in the financial statements of the entity being divested . |
| 28 | This is almost always a parent-subsidiary relationship where one company ( the parent ) owns more than 50% of the outstanding voting shares of another company ( the subsidiary ) . |
| 29 | These were scored when UOS pressure dropped to less than 50% of the prevailing UOS pressure within one second without the occurrence of swallowing or straining . |
| 30 | " Fifty-one per cent subsidiary " is defined in s838(1) TA 1988 as a company more than 50% of the ordinary share capital of which is owned directly or indirectly by another company , so it is possible for Newco to be a 51% subsidiary of one of the institutional investors while also remaining a close company under the control of management within the meaning of s416(2) ( a ) , since the two tests are different . |